在职申硕英语考试

【单选题】It’s not just your imagination. In cities from coast to coast, the use of Spanish is booming, and is proliferating in ways no other language has before in the U.S. history--other thanEnglish of course.
It’s this sort of environment that is a cause for concern for many. Mauro Mujica heads a group called "U. S.English," which lobbies for officialEnglish laws across the country. He’s concerned that with so many Spanish speakers entering the country, the U.S. will become a nation split by language, much likeCanadA、
"Now we’re beginning to divide ourselves, to split along linguistic lines. We’re beginning to see pockets of people who speak other languages and noEnglish whatsoever. "
His fear is hardly universal. Gregory Rodriguez is a fellow with the NewAmerica Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank based in Washington,D、C、He calls Mujica’s arguments "ridiculous. "
"This process of immigrant enclaves (少数民族聚集地) and linguistic enclaves is an age-oldAmerican process. We’ve all heard the quotes fromBenjamin Franklin about his concerns that German-Americans would never assimilate. These concerns are as old as theAmerican republiC、"
Rodriguez argues that the current boom in the use of Spanish is due ahnost entirely to new immigrants, and that their children will, at least for the most part, learnEnglish. He points to 1990 census data, which indicates that by the third generation, two-thirds of all Hispanic children speakEnglish exclusively. Whether that number is going up or down will be difficult to determine since theCensusBureau didn’t track that information in its most recent census.
But there may be at least one piece of anecdotal evidence. Spanish-language movie theaters once flourished in the LosAngeles areA、There were dozens of these theaters just fifteen years ago. Today there are only seven.
"There is a myth that somehow immigrants come to the most powerful nation in the world simply to resist its cultural embrace," says Rodriguez. "But it is a myth. "
Immigrant enclaves are, of course, common throughoutAmerican History. German and Polish enclaves were common throughout the Midwest. The Italians flourished in New York.But those languages largely faded from use in the U.S. Few are predicting that will happen with Spanish. It’s here to stay, although we won’t know its ultimate impact for generations.
The best title for the passage is " ______".A．MakeEnglish Our Official Language
B．Immigrants and Their Languages
Communication Problem with Immigrants
D．The Spanish Language in the U.S.

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